My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
Elie WieselThe more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.
Elie WieselBetter that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
Elie WieselI was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.
Elie Wiesel